D772 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — DAILY DIGEST July 25, 2012 

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NUCLEAR WEAPON DETERRENT 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy 

and Water Development concluded a hearing to examine the proper size of the nuclear weapons stockpile to maintain a credible U.S. deterrent, after receiving testimony from General James E. Cartwright, USMC, (Ret.), former Vice Chairman, Joint 

Chiefs of Staff, Department of Defense, and Thomas 

R. Pickering, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, both of Global Zero United States 

Nuclear Policy Commission, and Keith B. Payne, 

Missouri State University Graduate Department of 

Defense and Strategic Studies, all of Washington, 

D.C. 

IMPACT OF SEQUESTRATION ON 

EDUCATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and 

Education, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine the impact of sequestration on education, after receiving testimony from Arne Duncan, 

Secretary of Education; June Atkinson, North Carolina State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Raleigh; Billy Walker, Randolph Field Independent 

School District, Universal City, Texas; Neal 

McCluskey, Cato Institute Center for Educational 

Freedom, Washington, D.C.; and Tammy L. Mann, 

The Campagna Center, Alexandria, Virginia. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of Sean Sullivan, of 

Connecticut, to be a Member of the Defense Nuclear 

Facilities Safety Board, and 878 nominations in the 

Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. 

INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: 

Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 

International Space Station, focusing on research, collaboration, and discovery, after receiving testimony 

from William H. Gerstenmaier, Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations, and 

Donald R. Pettit, Astronaut, both of the National 

Aeronautics and Space Administration; Thomas 

Reiter, European Space Agency, Paris, France; and 

James D. Royston, Center for the Advancement of 

Science and Space, Kennedy Space Center, Florida. 

SHORT-SUPPLY PRESCRIPTION DRUGS 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: 

Committee concluded a hearing to examine shortsupply prescription drugs, after receiving testimony 

from Representative Cummings; Virginia Herold, 

California State Board of Pharmacy Executive Officer, Sacramento; David Mayhaus, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; 

John M. Gray, Healthcare Distribution Management 

Association, Arlington, Virginia; John Coster, National Community Pharmacists Association, Alexandria, Virginia; and Patricia Earl, National Coalition 

of Pharmaceutical Distributors, Bowling Green, 

Ohio. 

WATER USE EFFICIENCY 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and Power concluded an oversight hearing to examine the role of water use efficiency and its impact on energy use, after receiving 

testimony from Henry L. Green, National Institute 

of Building Sciences, Washington, D.C.; Daniel W. 

Bena, PepsiCo, Inc., Purchase, New York; Russ 

Chaney, International Association of Plumbing and 

Mechanical Officials, Ontario, California; and Mary 

Ann Dickinson, Alliance for Water Efficiency, Chicago, Illinois. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items: 

S. 847, to amend the Toxic Substances Control 

Act to ensure that risks from chemicals are adequately understood and managed, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 

S. 357, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior 

to identify and declare wildlife disease emergencies 

and to coordinate rapid response to those emergencies, with an amendment; 

S. 810, to prohibit the conducting of invasive research on great apes, with an amendment; 

S. 1494, to reauthorize and amend the National 

Fish and Wildlife Foundation Establishment Act, 

with an amendment; 

S. 2071, to grant the Secretary of the Interior permanent authority to authorize States to issue electronic duck stamps; 

S. 2156, to amend the Migratory Bird Hunting 

and Conservation Stamp Act to permit the Secretary 

of the Interior, in consultation with the Migratory 

Bird Conservation Commission, to set prices for Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation 

Stamps and make limited waivers of stamp requirements for certain users, with an amendment; 

S. 2282, to extend the authorization of appropriations to carry out approved wetlands conservation 

projects under the North American Wetlands Conservation Act through fiscal year 2017; 


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S. 3370, to authorize the Administrator of General Services to convey a parcel of real property in 

Albuquerque, New Mexico, to the Amy Biehl High 

School Foundation; 

S. 2251, to designate the United States courthouse 

located at 709 West 9th Street, Juneau, Alaska, as 

the Robert Boochever United States Courthouse; 

S. 2326, to designate the new United States 

courthouse in Buffalo, New York, as the ‘‘Robert H. 

Jackson United States Courthouse’’; 

S. 1735, to approve the transfer of Yellow Creek 

Port properties in Iuka, Mississippi; 

Proposed resolutions relating to the General Services Administration; 

Proposed resolutions relating to the Corps Study, 

City of Norfolk, Virginia and Port Fourchon, Louisiana; and 

The nomination of Major General John Peabody, 

United States Army, to be a Member and President 

of the Mississippi River Commission. 

EDUCATION TAX INCENTIVES AND TAX 

REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing 

to examine education tax incentives and tax reform, 

focusing on how tax information could help families 

pay for college, after receiving testimony from James 

R. White, Director, Strategic Issues, Government 

Accountability Office; Waded Cruzado, Montana 

State University, Bozeman; Lynne Munson, Common 

Core, and Scott A. Hodge, Tax Foundation, both of 

Washington, D.C.; and Susan Dynarski, University 

of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, 

Ann Arbor. 

IRAN’S SUPPORT FOR TERRORISM IN THE 

MIDDLE EAST 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near 

Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs concluded a hearing to examine Iran’s support for terrorism in the Middle East, after receiving testimony 

from James F. Jeffrey, former U.S. Ambassador to 

Iraq, Department of State, Alexandria, Virginia; and 

Daniel Byman, Georgetown University Edmund A. 

Walsh School of Foreign Service, Danielle Pletka, 

American Enterprise Institute, and Matthew Levitt, 

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, all 

of Washington, D.C. 

ECONOMIC STATECRAFT 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded 

a hearing to examine S. 2215, to create jobs in the 

United States by increasing United States exports to 

Africa by at least 200 percent in real dollar value 

within 10 years, focusing on economic statecraft, and 

S. 3326, to amend the African Growth and Opportunity Act to extend the third-country fabric program and to add South Sudan to the list of countries 

eligible for designation under that Act, to make 

technical corrections to the Harmonized Tariff 

Schedule of the United States relating to the textile 

and apparel rules of origin for the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade 

Agreement, to approve the renewal of import restrictions contained in the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act of 2003, after receiving testimony from 

Francisco J. Sanchez, Under Secretary of Commerce 

for International Trade; and Elizabeth L. Littlefield, 

Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Fred 

Hochberg, Export-Import Bank, Stephen Hayes, Corporate Council on Africa, Mwangi S. Kimenyi, The 

Brookings Institution, and Scott Eisner, U.S. Chamber of Commerce African Affairs and International 

Operations, all of Washington, D.C. 

ASSESSING GRANTS MANAGEMENT 

Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, 

and International Security concluded a hearing to examine assessing grants management practices at Federal agencies, focusing on the amount of undisbursed 

funding remaining in expired grant accounts, and recent and historical funding levels for federal grants, 

after receiving testimony from Danny I. Werfel, 

Controller, Office of Federal Financial Management, 

Office of Management and Budget; Elizabeth M. 

Harman, Assistant Administrator, Grant Programs 

Directorate, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security; Nancy 

Gunderson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health 

and Human Services for Grants and Acquisition Policy and Accountability; and Stanley J. Czerwinski, 

Director, Strategic Issues, Government Accountability Office. 

JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE THROUGH 

CIVICS EDUCATION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a 

hearing to examine ensuring judicial independence 

through civics education, after receiving testimony 

from former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day 

O’Connor, Washington, D.C. 

ENHANCING WOMEN’S RETIREMENT 

SECURITY 

Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a 

hearing to examine enhancing women’s retirement 

security, focusing on how women’s access to and participation in employer-sponsored retirement plans 

and retirement incomes compare to men’s, and how 

later-in-life events affect women’s retirement income 

security, after receiving testimony from Barbara D. 

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and Income Security, Government Accountability 

Office; LaTina Burse Greene, Assistant Deputy Commissioner for Retirement and Disability Policy, Social Security Administration; Kelly O’Donnell, Financial Engines, Boston, Massachusetts; and Sabrina L. Schaeffer, Independent Women’s Forum, and Joan 

Entmacher, National Women’s Law Center, both of 

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Washington, D.C. 

House of Representatives 

Chamber Action 

Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 23 public bills, H.R. 6182–6204; and 2 resolutions, H.J. 

Res. 116; and H. Res. 740 were introduced. 

 Pages H5290–92 

Additional Cosponsors: Pages H5292–93 

Report Filed: A report was filed today as follows: 

H. Res. 741, providing for further consideration 

of the bill (H.R. 4078) to provide that no agency 

may take any significant regulatory action until the 

unemployment rate is equal to or less than 6.0 percent (H. Rept. 112–623). Page H5290 

Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein he 

appointed Representative Farenthold to act as Speaker pro tempore for today. Page H5203 

Recess: The House recessed at 10:45 a.m. and reconvened at 12 noon. Page H5208 

Suspension—Failed: The House failed to agree to 

suspend the rules and pass the following measure: 

President Obama’s Proposed 2012–2017 Offshore 

Drilling Lease Sale Plan Act: H.R. 6168, to direct 

the Secretary of the Interior to implement the Proposed Final Outer Continental Shelf Oil & Gas Leasing Program (2012–2017) in accordance with the 

Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act and other applicable law, by a 2/3 yea-and-nay vote of 164 yeas to 

261 nays, Roll No. 512. Pages H5212–17, H5224 

Congressional Replacement of President 

Obama’s Energy-Restricting and Job-Limiting 

Offshore Drilling Plan: The House passed H.R. 

6082, to officially replace, within the 60-day Congressional review period under the Outer Continental 

Shelf Lands Act, President Obama’s Proposed Final 

Outer Continental Shelf Oil & Gas Leasing Program 

(2012–2017) with a congressional plan that will 

conduct additional oil and natural gas lease sales to 

promote offshore energy development, job creation, 

and increased domestic energy production to ensure 

a more secure energy future in the United States, by 

a recorded vote of 253 ayes to 170 noes, Roll No. 

511. Consideration of the measure began yesterday, 

July 24th. Pages H5217–24 

Rejected the Slaughter motion to recommit the 

bill to the Committee on Natural Resources with instructions to report the same back to the House 

forthwith with an amendment, by a yea-and-nay vote 

of 179 yeas to 240 nays, Roll No. 510. 

 Pages H5222–23 

Rejected: 

Holt amendment (No. 2 printed in part C of H. 

Rept. 112–616) that was debated on July 24th that 

sought to strike the provision that requires the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a single multi-sale 

environmental impact statement for all of the new 

areas opened for drilling by the underlying bill (by 

a recorded vote of 163 ayes to 253 noes, Roll No. 

504); Page H5218 

Markey amendment (No. 4 printed in part C of 

H. Rept. 112–616) that was debated on July 24th 

that sought to prohibit gas produced under new 

leases authorized by this legislation from being exported to foreign countries (by a recorded vote of 

158 ayes to 262 noes, Roll No. 505); Pages H5218–19 

Markey amendment (No. 5 printed in part C of 

H. Rept. 112–616) that was debated on July 24th 

that sought to create a statutory requirement that 

new leases offered pursuant to this act include drilling safety improvements in response to the BP 

Deepwater Horizon disaster (by a recorded vote of 

189 ayes to 232 noes, Roll No. 506); Pages H5219–20 

Holt amendment (No. 6 printed in part C of H. 

Rept. 112–616) that was debated on July 24th that 

sought to end free drilling in the Gulf of Mexico by 

requiring oil companies to pay in order to receive 

new leases on public lands (by a recorded vote of 

177 ayes to 247 noes, Roll No. 507); Page H5220 

Hastings (FL) amendment (No. 7 printed in part 

C of H. Rept. 112–616) that was debated on July 

24th that sought to require each drilling permit application to include an estimate of how much the 

price of gasoline will decrease as a result of any oil 

or gas found under the permit (by a recorded vote 

of 158 ayes to 266 noes, Roll No. 508); and 

 Pages H5220–21 

Hastings (FL) amendment (No. 8 printed in part 

C of H. Rept. 112–616) that was debated on July 


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